The “Old School” Dynasty of Hugh Hefner

Playboy Magazine became unappealing to me as a man at some time during the l980’s. Could it be as simple as homologous pubic hair? There was a marked change in style of the women that posed for Playboy, and what once was a girl-next-door concept changed to that of a pin up girl. Playboy has a centerfold, and this could be considered a pin up. Have men actually pinned up Playboy centerfolds? The classic pin up, because of the puritan roots of America, was not a nude. It could be difficult for a man to find a suitable place to pin a Playboy centerfold. Pinning a Playboy centerfold could be considered chauvinist, and that would not be effective attracting a centerfold. Older pin ups were found in garages where men worked on cars. A few could be found in gym locker rooms. The majority of centerfolds it seems are hidden beneath the mattresses of pubescent boys from which to masturbate. You cannot masturbate in a gym locker room or a garage filled with other mechanics. My question is, “What is the function of the Playboy centerfold?” Early in Playboys history their pictorials were voyeuristic. They were secret, subtle, and private glimpses of your sister’s best friend. There was no mall hair. There was little Victoria’s Secret lingerie. Pubic hair had not yet become homologous. There was variety to the women, and they seemed natural. Somewhere during the l980’s this changed. A concept was conceived and since the women in Playboy look the same. They became models. Models are professional women who excel at exhibiting products. Traditionally models modeled clothing. In Playboy there is little need for this, because Playboy is a nudie magazine. Why would Playboy need models? It could be because modeling one’s self could be a stepping stone to becoming a model. If one wanted to model, it seems the best practise could be found modeling the product you would be modeling, not yourself. Would men eventually want to see clothes on women they all ready have seen nude? The answer is no, because getting women’s clothes off is of high importance to men. Again, why would Playboy need models? Is it because men have lost interest in average women like the girl-next-door? Have men come only to desire models, or at least women aspiring to be models? What do women do after they pose in Playboy? They all ready have taken their clothes off, so wouldn’t it be a anticlimactic to see models modeling clothing? It seems all of this could be solved if models stuck to modeling, and Playboy stuck with the girl-next-door. Maybe women have gotten fatter and uglier, and there are fewer from which to choose for a Playboy photo shoot. Playboy was forced to pursue models, because they are the only ones that look good naked. The nude model was born. Should a nude model really be a pin up girl, because pin up girls traditionally wore clothing? Nude models who wear scant clothing could be pin up girls. What would the pin up girls do? Would they have to model nude? What would the centerfold do? The answer is a pin up girl should be a pin up girl, and a Playboy centerfold should be the girl-next-door, because a Sport’s Illustrated swimsuit model is a pin up girls. I think it should be a mafia war. “This is the girl.”